– Perhaps part of the movement to pay, or at least better compensate, college athletes should include a stipend for travel home during school breaks. Scholarship athletes already face restrictions about jobs, and that is further limited when you’re on campus during the summer participating in formal workouts.

– Allen and Williams are gonna cringe when the Aztecs play at Fresno State, and get on a bus through the San Joaquin Valley.

– SDSU got a pair of blue-collar guys in an era of entitlement among high-profile prep athletes lavished with false praise and endless media attention.

“That’s how they play on the floor,” SDSU assistant coach Justin Hutson said. “They’re not entitled to anything. They’re humble. They don’t think they’re above anybody. If there are any two guys who would get on a bus, it’s them.”